ABC Announces Hire of Stephen Wiltshire as Safety Director

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors announced that veteran construction safety expert Stephen M. Wiltshire has joined its 70-person staff as director of safety. Wiltshire will direct programs and initiatives that support the achievement of ABC’s strategic safety goals, including the Safety Training Evaluation Process, a safety benchmarking and improvement tool for construction firms that can reduce incident rates by 87 percent. Wiltshire has designed and implemented award-winning safety programs, behavior-based training and loss control processes to create a culture of safety at ECS, Turner, Clark, AvalonBay and other construction firms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, in addition … Read more

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Clark Honored with Heritage Award for Role in Shaping Los Angeles Landscape

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Clark Construction Group was recently honored by non-profit organization Project Restore with a Los Angeles Heritage Award for the firm’s role in shaping and strengthening the Los Angeles, California built environment. Clark’s Western Region President and CEO, Richard Heim, accepted the award on the company’s behalf. Clark is the first construction company to be honored with the prestigious award. Clark has been building in California for nearly 40 years, but established a permanent office in the state, in 1992. The company has had a growing presence in the region – particularly in Los Angeles – ever since, and has delivered … Read more

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Skanska Builds New Research, Education Tower

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Skanska has signed a contract with the University of South Florida to build the Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute tower in Tampa, Florida. The contract is worth $41 million. The new education and research tower will be located in an urban setting of the downtown area of the city. With about 409,028 square feet, the building will consist of an anticipated 14 levels. Construction will begin in August 2017, and the project is expected to be complete in December 2019.

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Ground is Broken on New Larimer County Building

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CENTENNIAL, Colo. – A recent celebration and ceremony at Haselden’s 8.9-acre project site, located at First Street and Denver Avenue in Loveland, Colorado, marked the official groundbreaking for the new Larimer County Building. Designed by The Architects’ Studio, the $19.5-million project will make service much more convenient for the southern portion of the county. At 46,000 square feet, the two-story building will house several vital county offices such as the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Department of Motor Vehicles, County Clerk, Larimer County Workforce Center and Larimer County Department of Health and Environment. With 229 parking spaces and plenty of room … Read more

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Groundbreaking Ceremony Held for Refrigerated Warehouse in Sioux Falls

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard attended the recent groundbreaking for the first project to be built in the new Foundation Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Gil Haugan Construction, together with Tippmann Innovation, will build the 205,000-square-foot cold storage facility. Win Chill, a development, transportation and logistics company, will own the new facility which will have the capacity to support food wholesalers, retailers and food manufacturing customers in a four-state region. The cutting-edge design features the latest refrigeration and freezing technology available in the cold storage industry. The new building will feature 205,000 square feet of … Read more

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